Category: Facebook

We’ve probably looked at local from every side: social, brands/location, data/analytics, mobile, search, marketplaces and community. Through it all, some truisms have developed about local: 1. Facebook should be part of every solution. And Google generally is. 2. Vertical beats horizontal for better search and content 3. Location-specific search drives the most transactions, especially for […]

Selling marketing services to SMBs is never going to be easy, and Google and Facebook get more than their fair share of business. But the SMB market remains a potential gold mine for platform providers and resellers. To gauge the current environment, we caught up recently with a longtime expert in SMB sales: LocalSphere founder […]

Are SMBs going to turn to middlemen to handle their Facebook advertising? As four million SMB advertisers know, Facebook advertising is accessible, low commitment and inexpensive. It is fairly ideal for promoting local awareness and events. Facebook also delivers an audience that’s much less fragmented than search engines. From a vendor’s point of view, it […]

With the incredible riches of the next wave of commerce awaiting, it’s a race of the incumbents versus the innovators. “The race is for the incumbents to fix things before innovators get distribution,” ” suggests Global Payments SVP of Global Product Frank Young. That was one of the basic themes this week at the fourth […]

Facebook has formally relaunched its peer to peer local marketplace for used goods, setting up a strong challenge to Craigslist, cutting into new marketplaces from NextDoor and others, and potentially cutting in on eBay’s turf as well. The app carries a tagline of “Discover it. Buy It. Sell It.” In a news release, Facebook described […]

Disgruntled workers are writing the history of Silicon Valley, based on Dan Lyons’ funny and articulate Disrupted (actually, a book about HubSpot in Boston) and now, Antonio Garcia Martinez’s Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley. The latter, a hefty 496 page tome, goes through Garcia Martinez’ early experience as a quant-grunt […]

All of us in local marketing have had awkward conversations with the local plumber or vacuum repair shop that could care less about Yelp, Google, Facebook or Groupon. But they are in the minority. Just 22% of SMBs aren’t using digital marketing this year, per InfusionSoft. Some national franchises also haven’t figured out how to […]